NEWSLETTER - 04/05/07

Hey Mini-Maxers,
Its Easter, a time for seafood BBQ's, cool drinks, and some sleep ins for the hard working guys at SGC. We'll be closed tomorrow(Good Friday) and Sunday(Easter Sunday)this week, but we'll be open 9.30am- 6pm Saturday and 11am-6pm Easter Monday, with 2 BIG events happening on the Monday Public Holiday.

But just to recap on the life and times of Field Commander Foggo-he is spending this Easter getting in touch with his roots. Thats right, he is going to The Great Escape music festival at Homebush to mosh his head of to the innovative music of one of his all time favourite bands-WOLFMOTHER! Since his hypothesis of "blues music can be traced back to Hank Williams, meaning all rock music can be traces back to Hank as well"was blown out of the water when it was revealed Robert Johnson was banging out the hits 9 years before Hank even knew how to tune a guitar, Foggo has been introspective, seeking solace in the fact that The Carter Family beat Mr Johnson by about a year in the recording stakes(though how anyone can say "The sunny side of life" has any bearing on "Crossroad Blues" is beyond me)However, 3 days of catching up with "The Mother" should hopefully get Obiwans perspective back in order, and hopefully will result in another musical hypothesis for us to discuss. Now all he has to do is work out which t-shirt to wear...

Heaps happening, check out the events:

MAGIC THE GATHERING COLLECTABLE CARD GAME

Last Sunday The Mighty Allan Sharpe made it 384 from 384 by winning our Timespiral Block tournament, edging out Shane Brierly into second and Joey Medak to third. Great work TMAS, those going to PT Yokohama would do well to drop him an email and ask him for some tech help.

As we're closed Friday and Sunday, there will be no FNM or Sunday tournament this week. However, come Easter Monday look out, we're running the very fun, very popular 2 Headed Giant sealed tournament! Details as follows:

TWO HEADED GIANT SEALED TOURNAMENT
When: Easter Monday 9th April. 11am registration, 11.30am start
Format: 2 Headed Giant Sealed
Entry: $30 per player($60 per giant)
Prizes: Heaps of boosters, promos, t-shirts and posters up as prizes, plus a HEAPS fun afternoon playing a fun MTG format. If you don't have a team, don't panic, come in anyway and we'll do our best to find you 1! This is the format for the next pro Tour qualifier, which is at Burwood RSL May 20th. But aside from that, the format is absolutely FUN!!! Lots of prizes up for grabs, cruise in and have some fun

Then April 15th we're running our monthly Player of the Year event. Its Type 2, costs just $10 to play and has $100 up as first prize, plus Player of the Year points to top 8! To check out the standings click http://www.mtgparadise.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=26503

Just when you thought MTG couldn't get any better, April 21 & 22 sees the release of the highly anticipated 3rd expasnion to the awesome Time Spiral block Future Sight!!! Details for this MEGA event as follows:

FUTURE SIGHT PRE-RELEASE
Day 1
The Grace Hotel
77 York St
City
This is a beautiful new venue a block away from the Bowlers Club. Easy to find and very swish
When: Saturday 21st April. 9am registration 9.45am start for the morning flights(including 16 and under junior flights). 3pm registration 3.45pm start for afternoon flights(including 2 headed giant flight)
Format: Future Sight sealed!(you get a Time Spiral tournament pack
and 3 Future Sight boosters to crack and make your best 40 card deck with)
Entry: $35 per flight($30 for the 16 and under flight 9am)
Prizes: SOOOOOO many boosters up as prizes, plus t-shirts, posters and everyone gets a foil promo card just for turning up! You have the option of registering for the serious flight, where the more you win the more boosters you take home, or the casual flights where it doesn't matter where you finish, you still are guaranteed to win 3 packs of the new set!!!

Day 2
Burwood RSL
96 Shaftsbury Rd
Burwood
When: Sunday 22nd April. 9am registration 9.45am start for the morning flights. 3pm registration 3.45pm start for afternoon flights (including 2 headed giant flight)
Format: Future Sight sealed!(you get a Time Spiral tournament pack and 3 Future Sight boosters to crack and make your best 40 card deck with)
Entry: $35 per flight
Prizes: SOOOOOO many boosters up as prizes, plus t-shirts, posters and everyone gets a foil promo card just for turning up! You have the option of registering for the serious flight, where the more you win the more boosters you take home, or the casual flights where it doesn't matter where you finish, you still are guaranteed to win 3 packs of the new set!!!

This will be a MEGA weekend of fun MTG play. This is the last expansion in the block, meaning that this will be the last expansion added to the format before the Sealed PTQ Two Headed Giant tournament May 20th, and the NSW Regionals June 2. Plus so far the block has deivered SOOO much MTG goodness this expansion will clearly be no different.

We are taking pre-registration now at SGC, meaning that not only do you secure your place in the tournament(or tournaments)you also receive an extra booster as prizes on the day for each event you pre- register and pay for! How good!!! This will be a monster weekend, don't miss out

The following weekend will be the Future Sight Sneak Peek at SGC, more details as thet come to hand!

VS(Marvel & DC)TRADEABLE CARD GAME

Great work from VS demoer extraordinairre Troy 'Louis' Armstrong for going 4-1 and winning last Sundays Golden Age tournament,his Doom deck beating Martin Hall's Brotherhood deck by 6 points of tie breakers in the 3rd column. Kenny le Bon, playing Checkmate/Inhumans, finished third. It was a fun arvo of VS action, with Louis taking home a foil Savage Beatdown as first prize!

This Monday is an UBER VS day. We're running a massive VS sealed tournament where you get 2(TWO!!!)card pools to play with, then a top 8 booster draft final, then the winner gets a box of the latest VS expansion, the very hot Marvel Team Up!!! This will be awesome, and its just $40!!! For 10 packs minimum!!! Details as follows:
When: Easter Monday 9th April. Noon rego, 12.30pm start
Format: Sealed. First 3-4 rounds will be LOS sealed-5 packs to make your best 30 card deck with. Then next 3-4 rounds will be MTU Sealed. 5 packs to make your best 30 card deck with. MTU draft final to top 8.
Entry: $40
Prizes: Apart from a fun day of playing VS to your hearts content, plus getting HEAPS of Modern Age cards REALLY cheap, the winner will get a box of MTU!!!. T-Shirts, deck tins and boosters up as prizes as well, plus a fun arvo of playing infinite sealed VS!!!

This event would be excellent for both new players and PC veterans as the sealed format lends itself to a more even playing field. Plus you get TWO!!! card pools, so if you're unlucky in the first, hang in, the second may help you roar up the tables.

This will be a fantastic was to spend a public holiday, don't miss out!

Then Sunday 15th April its that time of the month again when we launch into our regular Player of the Year tournament. Details as follows:

WIN A BOX SILVER AGE TOURNAMENT

When: Sunday April 15th. Noon rego, 12.30pm start
Format: Silver Age
Entry: $10
Prizes: BOX of MTU to the winner! Boosters, promos, deck tins and fat guy sized T-Shirts up as prizes, plus a fun day of playing VS!!

Then April 29th its another Golden Age tournament. Entry just $5 with another foil Beatdown up as prizes(plus boosters)
VS is a fine TCG. Its easy to play, not expensive to get into (boosters start from just $2 with beginner decks just $5!), we get fine prize support from UDE and most of all, its FUN!!! If you'd like to learn cruise in anytime for a demo, it rocks.

YUGIOH COLLECTABLE CARD GAME
A fine 47 players hit the Hobby League last Saturday, but because I was at a wedding I don't know who won! Needless to saym I'm sure they did a great job!Yugioh is definitelt on this Saturday. Doors open at 9.30am for a 10am start, and we finish up and give out prizes at 1pm. Plus everyone gets a Easter Egg! Entry is just $5, its UDE sanctioned, there is an open and a 13 and under event, and everyone wins a prize!

Starting next Tuesday we're kicking off our usual holiday tournaments on Tuesdays and Thursdays! they are heaps of fun with TONS of boosters. Details as follows:
When: Tuesday 10th April, Thursday 12th April, Tuesday 17th April, Thursday 19th April. Noon registration, 12.30pm start
Format: Advanced Constructed
Entry: $10
Prizes: HEAPS of boosters up as prizes! They are:
1st: 8 packs Cyberdark Impact 8 packs Power of the Duelist
2nd: 6 packs Cyberdark Impact 6 packs Power of the Duelist
3rd & 4th 4 packs Cyberdark Impact 4 packs Power of the Duelist
5th-8th: 2 packs Cyberdark Impact 2 packs Power of the Duelist
9th-16th 1 Power of the Duelist
16th + 1 pack Cyberdark Impact

There will be top 8 play-offs as well so you can get into practice for Regionals/Nationals finals. Plus it will be fun. The Swiss rounds will finish around 4pm, top 8 around 6pm, this of course all depends on the number of players. Hope to see you guys here, being your trades.And its UDE sanctioned of course so you get to work on your ranking

And the second last Yugioh Regionals for the 2007 Nationals season is on April 29th at SGC. 10am rego, 10.30am start with the top 8 getting mats and an invite to the Nationals, which is at Bondi RSL June 9 & 10.

Yugioh rocks. It has the most players of any TCG in Sydney, we have a top range of YGO singles and a mega Hobby League tournament each Saturday run by the best YGO judges in the world. If you'd like to learn how to play, or you already do but just wanna play for fun, cruise in anytime, especially Saturday mornings when SGC becomes YGO central!

WORLD OF WARCRAFT COLLECTABLE CARD GAME
Sydney VS Pro Circuit top 4 player, Jonathan Luey, showed versitility only a handful of players can show when he went 5-0 to win last Sundays World of Warcraft Through the Dark Portal release celebration! Great work Jonathan.

Tonight, as master judge Paul Ross prepares to make his way over to San Diego to be the Australian UDE rules guru we're having a farewell WOW draft for him using the new set. Play will kick off around 6pmish, if you have the new packs please bring them, we have oodles of Heros boosters you can trade in for.

Next Sunday tournament is April 15th and its a WOW booster draft tournament with the new set(which goes on sale April 12th!)Its $25 to play and will be heaps of fun, with promos and rare picks up as prizes.

And don't forget that we play WOW Hobby League each Saturday afternoon at 2pm. Its fun, entry is just $6 with boosters, promos and UDE rankings points up as prizes

WOW is a fine TCG. Its fun, easy, has great prize support and the cards look amazing. If you'd like to try we have learn to play decks on hand, cruise in anytime for a demo

NARUTO COLLECTABLE CARD GAME

Perenial winner Rudi beat 8 other ninjas last Saturday to take out our weekly Naruto tournament, using his Fire/Wind deck. Strong up and coming ninja Franco came in second. Top work guys.

This Saturday marks the start of the Naruto monthly league. Players making the top 8 each Saturday will receive points, then the player with the highest points at the end of April wins the AWESOME Naruto statue, which will be on display at SGC tomorrow, plus infinite bragging rights to be the winner of the first ever organised play event Naruto has hosted. Play kicks off at 2pm, its just $6 to play and everyone wins a prize

Naruto is a fine TCG, and will be the next BIG anime game. Its fun, the cards look GREAT and its easy to learn. The 2nd expansion, Coils of the Snake, its nearly sold out and the new expasnion is due in about 10 days time and looks NUTS. If you'd like a demo, cruise in on Saturday arvo and we'd be happy to give you a game

STAR TREK 2ND EDITION COLLECTABLE CARD GAME

The funkiest game on the shelves just got better!!! The new expasnion, These are the Voyages, is now in stock(though we've nearly sold out)and is SOOOOOO cool its not funny! The featured affiliation is the original series Trek guys(Kirk, Spock, McCoy etc) and the guys at Decipher have used the original series stills to make the card images from, and they are hilarious! You haven't played a game until you've been attacked by a 1966 alien!Even Obiwan Foggobi was impressed by the expansions pre-1975 sensibilities.

The next tournament will be April 15th. Its just $5 to play from 1.30pm onwards and if we get 6 players it'll be sanctioned. Following that April 29th we're having a win a box tournament. Its $10 to play with the winner picking up a box of Captains Log. This is a great way to warm up for the

2007 STAR TREK 2ND EDITION NSW TERRITORIALS!
When: Sunday 6th May. Noon rego 12.30pm start
Format: Constructed(including These are the Voyages)
Entry: $10
Prizes: Day 2 byes into the world championships, plus HEAPS of boosters, promos and fun playing Star Trek, the funkiest TCG around.

And keep June 30th/July 1st free, it looks to be the date for the 2007 Australasian Continentals right here at The Sydney Games Centre!

Trek absolutely rocks. I never get tired of saying that, and with the new set looking so cool(and the new cards are so much fun to play with)the game is going through a bit of a renassaince at the moment. Its fun, real cheap to get into(a starter and 3 boosters will cost you just $10)and the cards look GREAT. A fun bunch of people play the game and we have the States and the Nationals here at The Sydney Games Centre. If you'd like a game cruise in anytime, we can even GIVE you a learners deck to play with and keep to get you started.

POKEMON TRADEABLE CARD GAME
The time is getting closer for the 2007 NSW State Pokemon Championships!!! Thats right prize winners, the 2007 State Championships is on at SGC April 22nd, details as follows:

When: Sunday April 22nd. Noon rego, 12.30pm start
Format: Modified Constructed
Entry: FREE!!
Prizes: HEAPS of boosters up as prizes!!! Trophies to top 4 in each age group,promo cards and badges for everyone plus Pokemon bags, POP packs and fun!

And you can use the states for the MEGA MEGA MEGA 2007 Australasian Nationals Championships!!! Details as follows:

Where: The Sydney Games Centre
Level 1, 195a Burwood Rd
Burwood
When: Saturday 12th May and Sunday 13th May
Format: Modified Constructed
Entry: FREE!!!
Prizes: Winners in the 3 age catagories get a trip to the WORLD Championships in Hawaii!!! SOOOOO many boosters up as prizes its not funny, plus a fun weekend playing Pokemon!

Until then, don't forget we play our much fun weekly Pokemon league each Sunday arvo from 12 noon till about 3.30pm. Its jsut $6, heaps of fun and everyone wins a prize.

BATTLESTAR GALACTICA
just making all the BSG fans know that we have both the base set plus the first expansion-Betrayal, now in stock for just $5 per pack. The game looks VERY sexy, and if we get enough interest(and we've sold a lot of starters!)we'd be happy to run some tournaments for this cool game

tHATS ABOUT IT FOR THIS WEEK. iF YOU'RE DRIVING ANYWHERE-please be careful! Take things easy, stop regularly and under NO circumstances listen to country music whilst you're behind the wheel

Take care, hopefully we'll see you soon for a game of anything
Chris, Kieren and Vickey